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SubjectRe: warning: process 'update' used the obsolete bdflush...
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On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 11:34, Stewart Smith wrote:
> On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 07:04 PM, Paul Rolland wrote:
> > When switching from 2.4.20 to 2.5.x (x being recent), I have this
> > message...
> >
> > What does this mean ?
> > 1 - I have no process named update running,
> > 2 - I can't find anything name update in /etc/rc.d/* recursively.
>
> from fs/buffer.c:
> /*
> * There are no bdflush tunables left. But distributions are
> * still running obsolete flush daemons, so we terminate them here.
> *
> * Use of bdflush() is deprecated and will be removed in a future
> kernel.
> * The `pdflush' kernel threads fully replace bdflush daemons and this
> call.
> */
>
> I'd upgrade whatever package update comes from. I can't seem to find
> that binary around on some of my systems, what distribution and version
> are you running? Maybe it's time to upgrade.
>
> Someone else might know specifics :)

"update" is not a program, but a kernel daemon that was superseded by
pdflush in 2.5 kernels. I just can't remember right know what caused
that warning, but it's similar to the SO_BSDCOMPAT warning that is
triggered when running bind.

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